The surroundings are quiet, and there is not a trace of the hot summer insects. The scorching sun sprinkled on his body seemed to be absorbed, but he was a little chilly. Dilapidated, rotten, overgrown with half-man-tall weeds. Off the beaten track and surrounded by one or two uninhabited houses. I think it's a rumor of a haunted house, and the people around me don't dare to live here. From time to time, you can hear the creaking of the dilapidated door, and the wind blowing. Something very light stepped on the worn and fallen tiles, and there was a soft click.

However, there was no one.

I can't smell a trace of living things, and I am isolated from the bustling street market before, as if I am two worlds. Thinking of the rumors of this haunted mansion, my heart is even more empty. Cold sweat ran down his forehead and snaked down his cheeks, cold. I swallowed saliva involuntarily, and suddenly, the back of my neck was cold, and my cold fingers seemed to caress my neck.

I turned my head sharply and saw that there was still nothing.

A heart was about to jump to his throat, and there was a bang in front of him, the sound of a heavy object falling. Hurriedly stepped forward to check, only to see a piece of wild grass. When I looked up, I didn't know when the door in front of me opened. The sun didn't shine into the house, and it was pitch black. I always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at him, and the brothers were gone. He drew his knife and approached the room step by step, when the door slammed shut.

"Ahh He screamed, rolled his eyes, and fainted in fright.

"If you're so timid, what kind of killer are you doing." Chu Jiangli took Chu Beitang out of the room and looked at the fainting man. Chu Jiangli searched him very carefully and found a money bag. Chu Jiang was upside down and said to Chu Beitang: "Xiaotang, look, isn't there silver here?" ”

"My sister is amazing, my sister is the best in the world!" Chu Beitang's eyes were full of admiration, and he pointed to the several men who were tied up and said, "Do those people also have silver on them, Tang'er will help my sister search for it." ”

Chu Jiang left his sister and brother to scavenge the silver on several people, and tied up the last one who was stunned. Chu Jiangli woke up the fainting man and began to torture him. "Tell me, who sent you?"

There are many people who want her to die, but they don't know what force this wave comes from. There is a wave that started five years ago, and it seems to be Gaudí's forces. There is a Jianghu organization that takes over the task*, called next year today, taken from next year's today, which is the meaning of your death day. All her enemies have released tasks today next year, and they are the forces in the rivers and lakes.

Today's wave is a bit like the gang on the street of Bicang City, starting from her being named the county lord. The mastermind behind them, she can also vaguely guess. It's just that it's not ruthless enough!

"Take people's money and do things for others, forgive us for having nothing to say!" The leading man turned his head and said with a backbone.

"Tsk, Yangxing's killer," Chu Jiangli sighed deeply, the thick disdain in his eyes stung the eyes of the leading man. Chu Jiang raised his eyebrows, "Don't be unconvinced, you see, there are still people who are stunned." ”

Chu Jiangli understood that they were not killers, at most they were ruffians on the streets. If you know a little bit of superficial kung fu, you can take on some work, which is generally easy to deal with. She is a weak woman with a child, and she is a particularly easy type to deal with. It's a pity that when she met her, she was destined to lose her wife and soldiers.

"I advise you, it's better to say it sooner. Because, I'm afraid you won't be able to stand it next. When the time comes, I will suffer the hardship, but I still have to say, is it a loss? Chu Jiangli tore off a strip of cloth from the man, "Xiaotang, come and cover your eyes and ears." ”

"Oh." Chu Beitang let Chu Jiangli blindfold him, and obediently covered his ears with both hands. After a while, Chu Beitang found that all the people were gone. "Sister, did those bad guys say who was going to kill us? Also, where have they gone? ”

"They said it was just a temporary idea, and there was no one else to instigate it. So my sister scared them and let them go. Chu Jiangli wrote lightly.

Yangxing City, simple and traditional building. This is the largest restaurant in Yangxing, which has both simple and delicious food and complex processes. The dishes are varied, the shape is unique, and the color, flavor and fragrance are beautiful.

In a private room in the Simplified and Traditional Building, four young men sit around a table. Two of them, one dressed in a purple robe, had a handsome appearance, and showed nobility with his gestures; One person was dressed in light blue clothes, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he shook the folding fan in his hand as he spoke, it was Yang Heng and Jiang Qiyue. The other two, one of them was straight, sitting upright, exuding a killing aura all over his body, and he was a figure who was mixed up on the battlefield. A person is as calm as a pine and cypress, and his eyes are deep, as if he can see through people's thoughts.

"Brother Chu, you just returned to Yangxing, are you still used to it?" Yang Heng asked at the man who exuded a murderous aura. The tone is gentle and infinitely inclusive.

This is the grandson of General Chu who has just been recalled from Bicang City, the eldest son of Chu Jiangli's uncle's family, Chu Yunyi.

"Thank you for your concern, Yun Yi is very good." Chu Yunyi had been in Bicang City before, and he was a military general with a straightforward nature. Yangxing pays attention to etiquette everywhere, but he is actually a little unaccustomed. Especially when he knew that the man in front of him with the pseudonym Yang Heng was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Liyang Xing, he was shocked in his heart.

"Brother Chu, our brothers don't have so many etiquettes in private, just feel free. Come, I'll toast you. After drinking, we are brothers. Then, I took Brother Chu to go shopping for the Red Sleeve Move. Jiang Qiyue took the wine glass and drank it all, squeezing his eyebrows at Chu Yunyu with a wicked smile.

Li Yangxing shook his head, this person just didn't have a positive shape. The other person sneered, and his eyes didn't bother to give Jiang Qiyue one.

Seeing the reaction of the other two, Chu Yunyu also knew that the red sleeves were not good, so he shook his head and refused. "I appreciate Brother Jiang's kindness, but I'm afraid that I will suffer grandpa's rattan when I go home."

"Hahaha," Jiang Qiyue laughed loudly, "The future general is also afraid of rattan!" Then you should learn from Brother Xiao, isn't it, Brother Xiao? ”

Xiao Suichao, the son of the Qing family of Dali Temple. If the old man at home knew that he was going to the red sleeves, he wouldn't have handcuffed him and beat him. "Jiang Qiyue, if you want to visit the Heavenly Prison, I welcome you."

"Don't, isn't this to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Brother Chu. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, did you say? "It's not enough for Jiang Qiyue to be not serious, he has to leave Yang Xing and pull him into the water.

"Qiyue, I think if you let your eldest brother know about today's conversation, you will regret it very much." Liyang Xing said lightly. Jiang Qiyue shook his face, "Okay, I'm wrong, don't let my eldest brother know." ”

The three of you look at me, I look at you, and laugh out loud at the same time. The four of them talked and laughed, and the atmosphere quickly became warm.

"This is Yangxing City!" Chu Jiangli looked at the three big characters of Yangxing City on the high city wall, and sighed for a while. The city walls are towering, the walls are mottled, and they are engraved with a sense of simplicity and heaviness. The city gate is full of people, entering and exiting in an orderly manner, showing the majesty of a great country. After more than 800 years of ancient capital, grand, majestic,*.

"Xiaotang, do you know why the capital is called Yangxing?" Chu Jiangli took Chu Beitang into the city, with a faint tiredness between his eyebrows.

"Does it mean to look up at the stars?" Chu Beitang replied.

Chu Jiang bent away from the corner of his mouth and smiled, the arc was very shallow. The bright eyes darkened, with a hint of sneer. "Looking up at the stars is a down-to-earth look with awe, but it's not. The meaning of the star is the brightest star in the sky for the world to look at, high up and looking down on all beings. ”

Rising stars, looking up stars. obviously destroyed the Great Yi Dynasty with his own hands, but he never learned his lesson. Can stabilizing one's dragon chair with blind killing really exchange for the surrender of the world? As everyone knows, there is a rhetoric in this world that officials force the people to oppose it.

"So powerful, isn't that an immortal?" Chu Beitang didn't understand the affairs of the court, but he just remembered that the legendary immortals lived in the sky, so he asked this question.

"Immortals?" Chu Jiang looked away from his gaze and looked at a splendid palace in the middle of the city. "Xiaotang, do you want to be a fairy?"

"Of course I want to, the gods are so powerful! If Tang'er were a fairy, she would not be afraid of being bullied by others, and she would be able to protect her sister and her parents. "He always remembered that he had to protect his family when he grew up.

"I heard that you can't have feelings when you are an immortal. Xiaotang wants to be a fairy, is he going to throw away his sister and father? Chu Jiangli pretended to be sad, covered his face and cried, "It turns out that Xiaotang lied to her sister, and she was so good to you in vain." When the time comes, you might as well be that hypocrite. ”

"Not so, sister. Tang'er won't be like that, Tang'er is just, it's just ......" Chu Beitang was so anxious that he was about to cry, and he didn't know how to explain it for a while. "Tang'er, Tang'er is not a fairy, okay?"

After teasing Chu Beitang for a while, Chu Jiangli was in a good mood. "Okay, sister teases you. No matter what Xiaotang wants to do, my sister will help you. Even if you really want to be a fairy, my sister will definitely make you an immortal. ”

Chu Jiangli's expression was unprecedentedly serious, and at this time, Chu Beitang didn't understand the weight of Chu Jiangli's promise. When I think about it when I grow up, I want to cry every time.

It seems that you have to inquire where the Zhenguo General's Mansion is, and the rich and noble families generally live in the east of the city, so let's go in the direction of the east of the city first.

Chu Jiang had just taken a few steps away from her sister and brother in the direction of the east of the city, and a sedan chair stopped in front of her. Chu Jiangli walked around the sedan chair and continued walking, but was stopped by a big man. Chu Jiangli protected Chu Beitang behind him, "What? In broad daylight, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, do you still want to rob the people's daughters? ”

As soon as Chu Jiangli's words came out, everyone's eyes stared at the big man, they wanted to see who was so bold to do such an evil thing at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

"It was Xiangye who asked the little one to pick up the fourth lady back to the house." Dahan had to speak, but he still stopped in front of Chu Jiangli.

Chu Jiangli's eyes were slightly cold, "I'm afraid you have recognized the wrong person, what Xiangye, what Fourth Miss?" I don't know, you better get out of the way. Of course she knew what he was talking about, Hu Xianghu Lingjian, her so-called father. Eighteen years ago, Chu Xin'er, who was pregnant, rushed back to Bicang City with a letter of resignation, and she had been a child without a father for 12 years. Then, she had another father. The Hu family has nothing to do with her from beginning to end. Now I want to come to recognize my relatives, what a joke!

"If you still don't get out of the way, force me to report to the official, right?" Chu Jiang couldn't hide his irritability, and turned to everyone: "I beg you, can there be a kind person to help the little girl go to report to the official?"

Most of the people are simple and kind-hearted, and when they saw Chu Jiangli being bullied by a weak woman, they suddenly felt pity, and immediately someone trotted to report to the official for her.

This is a private matter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, if it really involves the Shangguan Mansion, the dignified Prime Minister's Mansion will become the joke of Quan Yangxing before it is known. Dahan hurriedly sent someone to stop him, and then stood next to the sedan chair to ask for instructions.

The sedan curtain was lifted, and a beautiful woman with a graceful temperament walked out of the sedan chair, squinted at her with a pair of eyes, and said to the lively crowd: "Everyone, this is a family matter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and I hope you can leave it to us to deal with ourselves." She said this sentence well, which not only warned everyone not to meddle in their affairs, but also the idle affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion. and polite, so as not to leave the impression of bullying others.

It turned out that there was a person sitting in the sedan chair, and she thought that this sedan chair was for her to sit on. Chu Jiang didn't care if anyone watched this big show, she didn't want to entangle with them too much.

"Sister, who is she? Why are you holding us back? Chu Beitang felt the woman's hostility towards them very sensitively, he held Chu Jiangli's hand tightly, like an arrogant little wolf in the grassland, instinctively felt the danger, and showed a confrontational posture to protect his most respected sister.

Without waiting for Chu Jiangli to speak, the noble lady opened her mouth first. "I am your sister's mother, and my husband is her father, so she should go back with me. As for you, I'll send someone to send you back to the Zhenguo General's Mansion. She motioned to the Han to pull Chu Beitang away, intending to take Chu Jiang back to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Mother? If it weren't for the fact that her identity couldn't be revealed, the woman in front of her would never be able to stand here properly. Han Ruoyu, the daughter of the secretary of the ministry, married Hu Lingjian and became the wife of the main room after Hu Lingjian took a leave of absence from Chu Xin'er. Mo said that she didn't plan to recognize him as a father at all, and even if she did, it wouldn't be her turn to be a mother.

Chu Beitang struggled, impossible. They have been living in Bicang City, and their sister, father and mother have always been with him, how can my sister's father and mother be in Yangxing? Liar, deceitful. Chu Beitang's big eyes were filled with mist, and tears fell down. "You are talking nonsense, my sister is not your daughter!"

He hugged Chu Jiangli's leg and looked up at her with teary eyes, "Sister, don't go with her, she's a liar." Sister, sister, ......" Chu Beitang cried so much that he was not sad, and his little head kept rubbing Chu Jiangli's hand on the top of his hair.

Chu Jiangli was a little helpless, compared to her father, she spent very little time by Chu Beitang's side. Even she didn't know why Chu Beitang was so sticky to her. Chu Jiangli squatted down and looked at him levelly, "Xiaotang, what my sister said always counts. So, no matter what irrelevant people say, you should believe your sister. In the future, if you are so easily made to cry by irrelevant people, my sister really doesn't want you. ”

"Well, hiccup!" Chu Beitang nodded, hiccuped, and shrank into Chu Jiangli's arms a little embarrassed.

"Let's go, my sister will take you home." Ignoring the few people in front of him, Chu Jiang walked away from his sister and brother.